Unusual Still life combinations: flowers and skulls, nature and technology, trash and treasure

Negative impacts of urbanisation on the environment. Man vs Nature

Darwin’s theory of evolution – how traits are passed on etc;

A study people (or animals), in natural enviornments

The destruction of a natural habitat

Patterns in natures, the golden rule

Terrorist encounters: This striking Year 12 folio offers inspiration for the A Level Art exam topic ‘Encounters, Experiences and Meetings’.

compose that mood board

Composition is a difficult thing with so many art elements to consider. How big should things be, how should it be layered, what should come forward and what go back, how can you use colour and contrast.​Look at these Golden rules to guide you.

What sort of techniques for drawing could you use:contour linecross contourcontinuousstipplingcross hatchingblindnegative space

You must collage your drawings into your sketchbook and annotate (considering how these drawings link to your chosen topic) ​ - take a look at these examples below

Annotations could/should include:

Describing the object

Feel of the object

Viewer's Perspective

Media

Description of technique

Successes/Improvement

a02 - development

Monoprinting and papercuts workshops

LO: Identify how a GCSE Art project runs and match different page of others work.Combine two different styles of working to make a brand new technique or outcome.​Develop ideas by combing the two techniques they’ve explored in the previous assignment. This is up to them about how they do it. We should see direct links back to the artists they have studied. Only 1 page expected here.

Find all the pages of the GCSE projects matching which pages belong to which project.Pick out the artist research pages. Look at the other pages and talk about how the artists have influenced them​Using a successful image (photo from the trip or artwork you have already made for this project), create a new artwork, experimenting what it will look like when you combine the two artists' techniques.

LO: Develop your ideas and create your own individual path.

Now you'e had a go at copying your artists, try applying that technique to something new. Think about your theme and perhaps use a photo you have taken or an observational drawing .

​Students, you have much more freedom, where do you want to take the project next? What ideas have you have so far? This will be different for every student. You might continue doing the same thing as the previous assignment, or try the same but with different media or a different image. You might try the same techniques but a different order of application. They might want to make links to another artist. 1 more page expected here.

A02 - Experimentation

ETCHING - Let's add a new element to your work. PRINTING.Start by drawing a combination of your ideas so far with pencil, or the image that most speaks to you.

What is Etching and how do you do it.

We're actually going to use a type of Etching called Drypoint.Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate (or "matrix") with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point. Traditionally the plate was copper, but now acetate, zinc, or plexiglas are also commonly used. We're going to use Plexiglas

There are a variety of tools you can use to make marks in your plexiglass but mostly we will use a point to scratch your design in

keep rubbing the ink in until there is only ink in the scratches and the rest of the plate is beautifully clean

Your design should look like this after you've scratched it in.

With some damp paper, you run the plate and paper through the press

You'll need to rub on your ink with a cloth

peeling the paper off, you'll get your design.

francisco goya

.1746–1828, regarded as the most important Spanish artist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over the course of his long career, Goya moved from jolly and lighthearted to deeply pessimistic and searching in his paintings, drawings, etchings, and frescoes.

a04 - design page

ideas for a final

-The elements of Final ideas pages-Don't just start with one idea. Have 3 ideas based on what you have explored already. Draw them out carefully and annotate, linking back to thte artists._You will probably know which one you want to use by the time you finish so​- Draw this out bigger-use the media you plan touse on the final-Have some zoomed in areas to show the details-Plan your colour scheme-make a step-by-step plan of how you will do it.-don't forget to link it back to your artists.

Reflect on your final ideas

Self Assessment of IdeasWhich idea uses previously explored imagery the most successfully?Which idea combines previously experimented with techniques?Which is the most successful composition (arrangement of shapes/sizes/colours/textures etc.)Which idea will utilise your talents the best?Which will stretch your artistic ability the most?To you, now, which one do you prefer and why?Talk to a neighbour, which do they prefer and why?